Love Lives On Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced
Summary
Keeps survivor benefits after remarriage. The Love Lives On Act of 2025 would stop remarriage from automatically ending key payments and health coverage for spouses of deceased service members and veterans. It would do this by changing provisions in title 38 and title 10 of the U.S. Code to protect Dependency and Indemnity Compensation, special pension, Survivor Benefit Plan annuities, and TRICARE dependent status.
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- Surviving spouses: Veterans' surviving spouses would remain eligible for Dependency and Indemnity Compensation and special pension even if they remarry. This preserves ongoing monthly payments that remarriage would otherwise have ended.
- Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP): The Department of Defense could not terminate an SBP annuity solely because a surviving spouse remarries. For spouses who remarried before age 55 and before enactment, the bill sets transitional rules that require annuity payments to resume either monthly starting one year after enactment or immediately for those who elected a specific child-transfer option as of Dec. 31, 2019. The bill also adds statutory language clarifying treatment of survivors of members who die on active duty.
- TRICARE dependents: TRICARE's definition of dependent would expand to include a remarried widow or widower whose later marriage ended by death, divorce, or annulment.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Annuity restart for surviving spouses
If enacted, the bill would stop the Secretary of Defense from ending a Survivor Benefit Plan annuity only because a surviving spouse remarried. It would require resuming annuity payments for spouses who remarried before age 55 and before enactment. Generally payments would resume for months that begin one year after enactment. If the spouse transferred payments to a child under 10 U.S.C. 1448(d)(2)(B) as in effect on December 31, 2019, payments would restart the first month after enactment.
Keep veteran survivor pay after remarriage
If enacted, the bill would say that a surviving spouse's remarriage does not bar Dependency and Indemnity Compensation or the specified VA benefits. Surviving spouses could continue to receive or regain those VA payments even if they remarry.
TRICARE coverage for remarried spouses
If enacted, the bill would treat a surviving spouse who remarried as a TRICARE dependent if the later marriage ended by death, divorce, or annulment. That would make such surviving spouses eligible for TRICARE health coverage when their later marriage has ended.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
KS • R
Cosponsors
Raphael Warnock
GA • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
AK • R
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
NV • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
AR • R
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
NM • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Mike Rounds
SD • R
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA]
PA • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
TX • R
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
HI • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
TX • R
Sponsored 2/5/2025
John Hickenlooper
CO • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
RI • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
NV • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
MA • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
NH • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
CA • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
HI • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]
ME • I
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
VT • I
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
MD • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
DE • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
NH • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Amy Klobuchar
MN • D
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
GA • D
Sponsored 2/11/2025
Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
NJ • D
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Gary Peters
MI • D
Sponsored 2/26/2025
Sen. Alsobrooks, Angela D. [D-MD]
MD • D
Sponsored 3/4/2025
Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
KS • R
Sponsored 3/5/2025
Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN]
IN • R
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
VA • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
OR • D
Sponsored 3/14/2025
John Boozman
AR • R
Sponsored 3/24/2025
Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
CO • D
Sponsored 3/25/2025
Sen. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ]
AZ • D
Sponsored 4/28/2025
Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
ME • R
Sponsored 4/29/2025
Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT]
MT • R
Sponsored 5/12/2025
Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
CT • D
Sponsored 5/19/2025
Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
WI • D
Sponsored 5/20/2025
Shelley Capito
WV • R
Sponsored 6/3/2025
Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
MN • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Peter Welch
VT • D
Sponsored 6/10/2025
Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
OR • D
Sponsored 6/26/2025
Sen. Kelly, Mark [D-AZ]
AZ • D
Sponsored 7/28/2025
Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
IL • D
Sponsored 9/3/2025
Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
MA • D
Sponsored 9/29/2025
Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
LA • R
Sponsored 9/29/2025
Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
NY • D
Sponsored 9/29/2025
Sen. Kim, Andy [D-NJ]
NJ • D
Sponsored 10/6/2025
Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM]
NM • D
Sponsored 10/7/2025
Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
WA • D
Sponsored 11/18/2025
Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA]
CA • D
Sponsored 11/20/2025
Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
NC • R
Sponsored 1/28/2026
Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
WA • D
Sponsored 1/28/2026
Cindy Hyde-Smith
MS • R
Sponsored 2/4/2026
Sen. Ricketts, Pete [R-NE]
NE • R
Sponsored 3/17/2026
Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
UT • R
Sponsored 4/13/2026
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